Iron Cross

ShouldersDumbbellIntermediateCompound
Iron Cross — start position
Start
Iron Cross — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryShoulders
SecondaryChest, Glutes, Hamstrings, Lower back, Quads, Traps
In the app

Iron Cross appears when you own dumbbells and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have dumbbells

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With dumbbell
With other
With bodyweight
With machine
With barbell

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